The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means.
www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A data center being built with investments from Google will be partly powered by a natural gas project that emits the yearly emissions equivalent of putting more than 970,000 additional gas-powered cars on the road. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
We decided to illustrate it.
Strange how every “America First” move somehow ends up helping Moscow. What a coincidence.
The Lost Science series continues: Erin McGuire talks to @emilyanthes.bsky.social about how her team of 200 scientists studying crops across Africa, Asia, and Latin America got shut down because their work "was no longer of interest to the American government." Gift link: nyti.ms/4sMi8hQ
Trump funded ICE so much because it is the federal agency that is most loyal to him.
He aims to use ICE to attack every marginalized group and dissident—not just immigrants.
If we don't fight for immigrants and trans people, ICE will move on to their next targets.
crimethinc.com/sacrificialv...
Having deliberately destroyed every single university in Gaza with the full support of the West the Zionist genocidaires (including the Epstein empire) are moving on to destroying universities in Lebanon. 🤢
New @thebulletin.org: "Knowledge is rarely, if ever, advanced through censorship...Removing the climate science chapter advances neither science nor the law. It only deprives judges of a resource needed to do their jobs."
"A dangerous precedent is being set in Trump's new Middle East war: targeting critical and highly vulnerable desalination plants that provide vital freshwater resources for the region," writes Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social.
“The childhood vaccination schedule needs to be eliminated," MAHA Institute's president said at a meeting Monday, @notus.com reports www.notus.org/health-scien...
Outrageous!
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
Rümeysa Öztürk got her PhD yesterday, roughly nine months after being released from ICE custody.
Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk!
Boycott Google. Use alternatives.
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
Four major concerns—the possibility that scientists could create mirror life, the continued evolution of AI and biological weapons programs, and the rapid dismantling and degradation of US public health infrastructure—all endangered the world in 2025.
Read the Clock statement: buff.ly/17yAznF
Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
"These problems can seem overwhelming, but we can turn back the Doomsday Clock, and we have done it before," said Bulletin President and CEO Alexandra Bell. "No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."
Watch the 2026 announcement: buff.ly/bnpzZuR
Minneapolis stands for America wow. 🇺🇸
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When injustice becomes law, resitance becomes duty.
– Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
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Social media post from US Senator Mark Warner --- If the United States asserts the right to use military force to invade and capture foreign leaders it accuses of criminal conduct, what prevents China from claiming the same authority over Taiwan’s leadership? What stops Vladimir Putin from asserting similar justification to abduct Ukraine’s president? Once this line is crossed, the rules that restrain global chaos begin to collapse, and authoritarian regimes will be the first to exploit it. (2/5)
Mark Warner with a great statement on Venezuela and Trump's violation of the rule of law.
➡️ They don’t care if they’re inconsistent. They don’t care what we think. They’re after the end result: power–wealth–white people–unquestioning followers–& no taxes. They can’t see past selfishness & inhumanity, or that their own children won’t have clean air or water, or the ability to think
Alas, it's true...
Should be really comfortable...😂
Portrait of Marina Vance, a scientist, sitting in a Colorado grassland.
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
Well, they've finally found their excuse for blocking all offshore wind: a Defense Department report says they create problems. What problems? Sorry, it's classified!
I wish I were making this up.
Vaccinations work!
Australia has got NO CERVICAL CANCER since they began giving the HPV vaccine!
